Hacking Weird memory usage on my Wii U

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I have the 32GB version and my memory got loaded with just zelda, splatoon and mario installed, but when i saw the memory usage on console's config, only 22gb was being used for this games, so where's the other 10gb?
Is there a software that let's me check the console's NAND to see if there's no useless file occupying space?
 

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some of it might be system usage, but that's a large chunk, so I don't know. I see other things installed over to the right. afaik, there's no app or anything to check the NAND for wasted space. it could be a shadow or ghost image of something that was deleted. look for an import folder. that's where a failed install would probably remain.
 

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about 22-25GB of space is usable on a 32GB Wii U
The same thing that have on the 32gb version, there's on the 4gb one too, so, I rly doubt that, maybe 2 or 3gb may be used for the system itself, but 10gb I rly doubt of that
 

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The same thing that have on the 32gb version, there's on the 4gb one too, so, I rly doubt that, maybe 2 or 3gb may be used for the system itself, but 10gb I rly doubt of that
Advertised storage numbers are different than what they actually are, because computers "count" differently.
https://www.gbmb.org/gb-to-gib
That website states that a computer will read 32GB as 29.80GiB. There's also some storage loss from formatting, as well as storage taken up by system files (about 4GB).
 
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Advertised storage numbers are different than what they actually are, because programmers usually don't label their gigabytes and gibibytes properly.
https://www.gbmb.org/gb-to-gib
That website states that a computer will read 32GB as 29.80GiB. There's also some storage loss from formatting, as well as storage taken up by system files (about 4GB).
It's not the computer's fault.
 

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I wouldn't worry about it. you're only option might be to reformat and see how much space is being used from nothing being on there.
 

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